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Suspicious powder mailed to hotels near Super Bowl

Associated Press

Posted:
01/31/2014 12:01:00 AM CST

Updated:
01/31/2014 01:08:21 PM CST

Members of U.S. Homeland Security's Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) unit, left, patrol a train platform with a K-9 team from Amtrak Police at Penn Station on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in New York. Federal and local authorities have studied intelligence about recent attacks on mass transit in Russia and heightened security for the Super Bowl, despite no specific terror threats. VIPR is part of a nationwide security program under the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). (AP Photo)

CARLSTADT, N.J. -- The FBI and other law enforcement are investigating a suspicious white powder that was mailed to at least five New Jersey hotels near the site of Sunday's Super Bowl XLVIII.

Carlstadt Police Det. John Cleary says someone at an Econo Lodge found the substance in an envelope on Friday.

Cleary says similar mailings arrived at the Homestead Inn in East Rutherford and a Renaissance Inn in Rutherford. He says investigators intercepted additional envelopes from a mail truck before it reached a Holiday Inn Express and Hampton Inn in Carlstadt.

Hazardous materials teams are checking out the substance. The FBI says it is investigating and no injuries have been reported.